Food Provisioning as a Politics of Urban Resistance
Topics: Black Geographies
, Food Systems
, Urban Geography
Keywords: Food geographies, Black geographies, urban geography
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Monday
Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 05:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 06:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 43
Authors:
Angelika Winner, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Abstract
This work examines the daily food provisioning practices residents of Newark, NJ, use to manage their varying access to food; the challenges, tensions, and contradictions Newark’s residents experience in their food environment; and how the existing food and health inequities in Newark were produced. One of the most prominent findings is the role that structural racism, especially segregation has played and still plays in establishing food and health inequities in Newark. Local, state, and federal politics converged in urban renewal and slum removal programs which not only segregated Black residents in the inner-city but also left them with much less access to food retail. The legacy of these projects is still being felt across Black communities in Newark today. The women of color who participated in this work experienced economic, food access, and transportation inequities in their food environment, but were able to lessen the effect of race-based inequities in their own lives and their communities through social and economic food provisioning practices with the help of social capital, Black institutions, and community activism. These practices represent acts of resistance against the structural racism these women experience daily, but also acts of care for their communities, and represent examples of Black self-help as a political framework for communal uplift.
Food Provisioning as a Politics of Urban Resistance
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